Title :
Speech enhancement based on the general transfer function GSC and postfiltering
Author :
Gannot, Sharon ; Cohen, Israel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
In speech enhancement applications, microphone array postfiltering allows additional reduction of noise components at a beamformer output. Among microphone array structures, the recently proposed general transfer function generalized sidelobe canceller (TF-GSC) has shown impressive noise reduction abilities in a directional noise field, while still maintaining low speech distortion. However, in a diffused noise field, less significant noise reduction is obtainable. The performance is even further degraded when the noise is nonstationary. We present three postfiltering methods for improving the performance of microphone arrays. Two of them are based on single-channel speech enhancers and make use of recently proposed algorithms concatenated to the beamformer output. The third is a multichannel speech enhancer which exploits noise-only components constructed within the TF-GSC structure. An experimental study, which consists of both objective and subjective evaluation in various noise fields, demonstrates the advantage of the multi-channel postfiltering compared to single-channel techniques.
Keywords :
acoustic noise; array signal processing; channel bank filters; interference suppression; microphones; random noise; speech enhancement; diffused noise field; directional noise field; general transfer function generalized sidelobe canceller; microphone array postfiltering; multi-channel postfiltering; noise reduction; speech enhancement; Concatenated codes; Degradation; Delay; Finite impulse response filter; Microphone arrays; Noise cancellation; Noise reduction; Speech enhancement; Transfer functions; Working environment noise;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003. Proceedings. (ICASSP '03). 2003 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7663-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2003.1198929